Standing In The Breach

Standing In The Breach - Jackson Browne (傑克遜·布朗)

Although the Earth may tremble

And our foundation crack

We are all assembled

And we will build them back

And let's just say the lives remain

And held within our reach

Try to put our world together

Standing in the breach

So many live in poverty

While others live like Kings

Though some may find peace

And acceptance in all that living brings

I will never understand

How ever they've prepared

How one life is struck down

And another life is spared

Though the earth may tremble

And cast our work aside

Though their efforts resembled

The fluctuations of time

We rise and fall with the trust

And belief and love redeems our seed

And our backs and the hearts

Together standing in the breech

You don't know why

It's such a far cry in what

This world could be

You don't know why

But you still try for the world you wish to see

You don't know how it will happen

Now after all that's come undone

But you know the change

That the world needs now is there in everyone

The unpaid debts of history

The open wounds of time

The laws of Human Nature always

Tugging from behind

I want to think that the earth can heal

And the people might still learn

How to meet this world's true challenges

And if it costs their own can turn

Though the earth may tremble and

The ocean's pitching arrives

We are all assembled

And we will lift our eyes

To the tasks that we know lie before us

And the power of our press besieged

And lift our souls into

The Heavens standing in the breach

You don't know why

It's such a far cry from

What this world can be

You don't know why

But you still try for

The world you wish to see

You don't know how

It will happen now

For all that's come undone

But you know the world you waiting for

May not come may not come

But you know the change the world needs

Now is there in everyone